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Ethics: Your Own Personal Code of Practice   

Memoirists do not make it easy for themselves. However much we might justify the practice of writing a personal narrative as…

Lily Dunn
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Smuggling in Exposition  

One of the hardest things to do as a writer is to write exposition without it seeming to be exposition. That…

Neil Biswas
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The Notebook Test 

How do you know when an idea is worth pursuing? Every writer is faced with this conundrum. You may come up…

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Write Winter’s Trees 

I still can’t draw a bloody tree. That childhood instinct to execute a brown stick with a round green blob on…

Luke Turner
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Writing About the Weather  

Whether you’re writing fiction or non-fiction, the weather is a fantastic tool not just for setting a scene in the mind…

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Who, what, where, when?

Write a conversation between two people. Decide who they are. Do they know each other? Or has one of them just…

Cynan Jones
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Know Who’s Talking When to Who, Why, Where 

Too often, dialogue happens in a vacuum, relying on whatever is being said to keep the story moving. This is not…

Cynan Jones
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Using Cultural Reference Points to Develop Character 

The use of cultural reference points to establish or develop character is not always as straightforward as it might appear. Use…

Charlie Hill
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Elgar, Taylor Swift and Joni Mitchell: Using cultural reference points to develop character

The use of cultural reference points to help establish and flesh-out a character is commonplace, and the effectiveness of the approach…

Charlie Hill
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Researching Your Writing

Whatever you are writing, readers like to feel you know what you are talking about! This sounds a truism, but it…

Jenny Parrott
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Poetry Party

Write a poem about a big community event. This could be anything: a poetry festival, an open-air concert, a dance, a…

Jonathan Edwards
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Poetry and Community

When we think of poetry, we often think of ‘you’ and ‘I,’ the way that Shakespeare’s sonnets or the poems of…

Jonathan Edwards
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Inspiration for Stories

Incite 
You may find it helpful to start with an inciting incident, event or situation, which hooks the reader and triggers…

Elise Valmorbida
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Springboard

Choose a news article that catches your attention and makes an impression on you. Use it as a springboard for an…

Elise Valmorbida
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Exercise: Where to Start and Finish a Scene

You are often told as a screenwriter that to write a scene you should START LATE, AND LEAVE EARLY. But how…

Neil Biswas
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Tip: Rewriting from Notes on Your Script

Rewriting is a fact of life if you are a screenwriter. The sooner you master moving from one draft to the…

Neil Biswas